overseas deployment, which can include service in a combat or war zone, exposure to casualties, or both. The 2010 National …

relative marginal utilities not only for happiness and life satisfaction, but also for aspects related to family, health …

The link between happiness and overall inequality is best studied using an index that incorporates different aspects of … inequality, and is measured consistently in different countries. One such index is the degree to which happiness itself varies … among individuals. Its correlation with both happiness levels and social trust is substantially stronger than the …

We study quot;habituationquot; to income and to status using individual panel data on the happiness of 7,812 people … living in Germany from 1984 to 2000. Specifically, we estimate a quot;happiness equationquot; defined over several lags of … in status and 52% of one standard deviation in income are associated with similar increases in happiness. In the long …

highly significant interactions. Results are presented for life evaluations and (in some surveys) for happiness yesterday, in … with greater life satisfaction at all ages, but especially so at ages 60 and above, in some samples deepening the U …-shape in age by increasing the size of the life satisfaction gains following the mid-life low …

strategies, we show that the higher transparency increased the gap in happiness between richer and poorer individuals by 29%, and … it increased the life satisfaction gap by 21%. We provide suggestive evidence that some, although probably not all, of …

correlation between national average suicide rates and measures of life satisfaction. Thus social capital does appear to improve … well-being, whether measured by higher average values of life satisfaction or by lower average suicide rates. There is a … variables that have more weight in explaining life satisfaction than suicide (trust and quality of government), and less …